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Celebrating Sixty Years of Urban Affairs Review: Elinor Ostrom and the Debates Over Municipal Fragmentation Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Christina Greer, Timothy Weaver
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Increasing Minimum Teacher Salaries: Opportunities and Drawbacks Across Geography and Race Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 J. Cameron Anglum, Anita Manion, Sapna Varkey
Following record-high public support for improved teacher salaries, many states initiated a variety of pandemic-era reforms to teacher compensation policies to improve teacher morale and retention. In this article, we examine a minimum teacher salary reform in Missouri, a state home to a diverse geographic landscape including major metropolitan areas and large rural regions. On the one hand, we estimate
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A Grassroots Alternative to Urban Shrinkage? A Comparative Analysis of Place Reputational Remaking in Buffalo and Cleveland Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Randolph Hohle
This article explores how local actors in Buffalo and Cleveland mobilized through garden tourism as a form of alternative urbanism to rehabilitate heavily stigmatized places and remake their city's reputations. Buidling off the concepts of civic action and scene styles, I compare how grassroots actors in Buffalo mobilized through a symbolic purity scene style to deracialize urban stigmas to how grassroots
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Gas Leaks, Gas Shutoffs, and Environmental Justice in New York City Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Yana Kucheva, Ronak Etemadpour
Gas leaks in cities with older infrastructure are relatively common. The unburned methane which they release is a potent greenhouse gas with harmful health effects. Using administrative municipal data on gas leak reports, we provide a systematic analysis of residential gas leaks in New York City and their association with socioeconomic inequality. We find that both the reporting of gas leaks and the
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Landscapes of Remunicipalization: A Critical Literature Review Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 David A. McDonald
After four decades of privatization, remunicipalization has begun to reverse the trend. This policy phenomenon has been accompanied by a concomitant growth in academic writing on the topic, documenting a wide range of dynamics from different conceptual and methodological viewpoints, resulting in what many see to be a highly polarized debate. This article provides the first comprehensive review of this
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A Feminist Critical Analysis of Public Toilets and Gender: A Systematic Review Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Shawna Lewkowitz, Jason Gilliland
This systematic review explores how the provision and experience of public toilets in urban spaces are gendered in North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. A search of 4 bibliographic databases resulted in 18 articles for inclusion. Data were analyzed using a feminist critical perspective and the United Nations (UN) framework on standards to assess the provision of sanitation in public spaces
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Does the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program Expand Access to Opportunity Neighborhoods? Tracking Movements of Low-Income Tenants in California Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Yiwen Kuai
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program can potentially help expand access to neighborhoods with low poverty and economic opportunities for low-income households. Prior studies described that LIHTC units are in neighborhoods with relatively high poverty, but with improvements in recent years. Beyond cross-sectional analyses, scholars have not extensively looked at the movements of tenants
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Women's Representation in Canadian Municipalities Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Alexandra Artiles, Susan Franceschet, Jack Lucas, Sandra Breux, Meagan Cloutier
This research note uses a new and comprehensive data set of 22,333 municipal elected positions in 3,363 municipalities across Canada to provide a systematic analysis of women's presence in municipal office. Drawing on findings from cross-national research about women's representation in local governments, we examine whether district type, council size, urban setting, women's workforce participation
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Digitalization of Smart City—Sine Qua Non or an Option for Those Interested? Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Agnieszka Szpak, Joanna Modrzyńska, Michał Dahl
A common feature of numerous definitions of “smart city” is the skilfull use of digitalization tools aimed at achieving the goals of urban policy based on the principles of sustainable development. Digitalization is, therefore, the foundation of a smart city, however, there are no uniform standards for digital solutions that city authorities could implement. This article aims to analyze digitalization
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Emerging Metropolitan Spaces in Poland and France: Co-creation of New Territorialities Through Institutional Dialogue and Soft Planning Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Łukasz Mikuła, Robert Pyka, Małgorzata Czornik, Emmanuel Thimonier-Rouzet
Planning the development of metropolitan areas makes use of various forms of cooperation between associated territorial units. Regardless of the cooperation form adopted, dialogue is a factor that significantly facilitates solving spatial problems and gaining social acceptance for the selection of project locations. Its characteristics, including content, course, and participants, additionally determine
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Defying Stereotypes, Populism, and Neoliberal Discourse: Municipal Agility and Innovation During COVID Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Merdan Seker, Richard Shearmur, Gérard Beaudet
Local governments are often viewed as basic service and infrastructure providers that are neither particularly proactive nor innovative: in certain influential circles, this view has taken on the trappings of “common-sense,” and underpins the protracted undermining of public-sector organizations, a hallmark of neoliberalism. However, the COVID crisis required municipalities to act with agility and
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Black Heritage in the National Register: The Williams Avenue YWCA in Portland, Oregon Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Eleonora Redaelli, John Arroyo, Alexandra May Carson
This paper examines the nomination of the Williams Avenue YWCA in Portland, Oregon, in the National Register of Historic Places as a crucial event in recognizing and preserving Black heritage within American national history. Our analytical framework combines Black geography and multilevel governance theory (MLG) to examine documents used for the nomination process. We unpack the historic significance
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Are Dollar Stores Magnets for Violent Crime? Evidence from Chicago Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Eun Jin Shin
With the rise of economic inequality in recent decades, dollar stores have flourished in the United States. Although the media has increasingly portrayed dollar stores as violent crime magnets, limited academic research has examined their impact on nearby crime. This study employed a difference-in-differences approach to investigate the impact of dollar stores on localized violent crime patterns in
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Partisanship and Professionalization: School Board Decision-Making in the Midst of a Pandemic Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Karin Kitchens, Megan Goldberg
During the COVID-19 pandemic, school board members played a prominent role in deciding reopening plans. Using an original large-scale survey of board members, our goal is to understand how the polarized, political context of pandemic responses shaped the decision-making processes of members as they experienced dramatic increases in workload. We find school board members are much more likely to identify
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Happiness is In The Air if It Grows Growing Places are Happier than Shrinking ones Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Adam Okulicz-Kozaryn, Brian K. Everett, Ebshoy Mikhaeil
We study the effect of population change on subjective wellbeing (SWB) using over 100,000 observations from behavioral risk factor surveillance system representative of 392 US counties. SWB correlates higher with population change (0.4) than with county-level crime (-0.25) and income (0.2). The relative ecological strong effect size holds in regressions controlling for person-level and county-level
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Understanding Support for Municipal Political Parties: Evidence from Canada Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Michael McGregor, Jack Lucas, Chris Erl, Cameron D. Anderson
The province of Ontario, Canada, has a longstanding history of non-partisanship in municipal elections. In this distinctive context, we report results on citizen attitudes toward municipal partisanship using a survey of eligible voters in Canada's most populous province. Using a mixed-methods approach, we focus on three interrelated research questions. First, how much does citizen support for municipal
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Consumption and Economic Security: A Two-Stage Conceptualization of Sustainable Homeownership in the United States Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Chunhui Ren
In the present study, we propose a novel conceptualization of homeownership in the United States as a special commodity, whose consumption involves a two-stage process: homeownership entry wherein the ability to consume is pivotal, and homeownership retention wherein the outcome rests on economic security. Based on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), we test this conceptualization with consumption
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Creating Local “Citizen's Governance Spaces” in Austerity Contexts : Food Recuperation and Urban Gardening in Montréal (Canada) as Ways to Pragmatically Invent Alternatives Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Laurence Bherer, Pascale Dufour, Françoise Montambeault
While there is a growing interest in citizen-led initiatives, there is still no consensus on how to situate them, especially in relation to state institutions. On the one hand, citizen-led initiatives are seen as being co-opted by formal institutions in a context of austerity. On the other hand, these initiatives are often presented as “spaces of resistance” to neoliberalism, or as political acts of
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Explaining Value Capture Implementation in New York, London, and Copenhagen: Negotiating Distributional Effects Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Simon van Zoest, Tom A. Daamen
Value capture (VC) is widely cited as a method for local authorities to provide urban public goods to their cities in the face of fiscal stress. Its application in practice however remains limited. In this article, we aim to explain the implementation process of VC as a strategy to fund public transportation infrastructure through case studies in London, New York, and Copenhagen. Adopting a theory
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Innovation Districts: Assessing Their Potential as a Strategy for Urban Economic Development Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Joshua Drucker, Carla Maria Kayanan
Innovation districts have gained attention as a fast-spreading urban economic development strategy, raising numerous questions. What are their distinguishing attributes? Are they a substantive poli...
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Affordability with an Expiration Date: A Microsimulation for Estimating the Demographic Changes Caused by Deregulation of Assisted Housing Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Sharon Yavo-Ayalon, Daphna Levine, Shai Sussman, Meirav Aharon Gutman
This research turns the spotlight to the deregulation of once publicly funded affordable housing. Through a microsimulation that follows the conversion from affordable to market-rate units on Roose...
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Leadership Transfer Networks and Regional Environmental Governance Performance Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Can Cui, Wenna Chen, Hongtao Yi
In response to the increasing attention paid to environmental governance and leadership mobility, this study explores the interactions between leadership mobility and environmental governance perfo...
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Where Do They Go? The Destinations of Residents Moving from Gentrifying Neighborhoods Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Lance Freeman, Jackelyn Hwang, Tyler Haupert, Iris Zhang
The fate of residents living in gentrifying neighborhoods remains an important yet little understood outcome of the gentrification process. In this study, we assess the effects of gentrification on...
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Post-Disaster Recovery Challenges of Public Housing Residents: Lumberton, North Carolina After Hurricane Matthew Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Sayma Khajehei, Sara Hamideh
The floods caused by Hurricane Matthew in 2016 affected Lumberton, a socioeconomically diverse city in North Carolina with 729 public housing units. Public housing residents face unique challenges ...
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Inaccuracies in Low Income Housing Geocodes: When and Why They Matter Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Nicole E. Wilson, Michael Hankinson, Asya Magazinnik, Melissa Sands
Scholars across disciplines frequently employ data on housing developments subsidized by the National Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). We find that the geographic coordinates for these develo...
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“I Can’t Vote if I Don’t Leave My Apartment”: The Problem of Neighborhood Violence and its Impact on the Political Behavior of Black American Women Living Below the Poverty Line Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Alex J. Moffett-Bateau
Prior research examining political behavior outside of the United States, has shown that violence can have a mixed impact on political engagement. Building on that work, this research examines whet...
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Depoliticization of Governance in Large Municipalities in Europe Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Irena Baclija Brajnik, Luka Kronegger, Vladimir Prebilic
The premise of our research paper is that large (by the size of the population) municipalities are more complex to govern and manage, and this, in turn, calls for a more professional and apolitical...
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“The Echoes of Echo Park”: Anti-Homeless Ordinances in Neo-Revanchist Cities Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Christopher Giamarino, A. Loukaitou-Sideris
This article focuses on national and local anti-homeless ordinances and investigates emerging spatial banishment strategies and their impacts on unhoused folks’ basic freedoms. First, we review deb...
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Sharing Homes and Beds: Baptist-Bootlegger Coalitions and the Politics of Authenticity in the Regulation of Los Angeles's Short-Term Rental Markets Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Yotala Oszkay
Platform economy politics reflect a trend of corporations working with civic actors to achieve shared political goals, reconfiguring once adversarial relationships (e.g., management vs. labor, home...
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The Impact of State Fiscal Preemption on Local Taxing Authorities: A Case of Michigan Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Shu Wang
This study investigates the impact of state fiscal preemption on local governance structure. Specifically, it focuses on state-imposed tax and expenditure limits (TELs), which constrain local gover...
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From Rejection to Legitimation: Governing the Emergence of Organized Homeless Encampments Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Stephen Przybylinski
This paper analyzes the City of Portland, Oregon's recent zoning code amendment which legalized sanctioned homeless encampments. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in Portland, the paper details h...
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Sanctuary Policies and the Influence of Local Demographics and Partisanship Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien, Loren Collingwood, Michael Ahn Paarlberg
Despite the increased scholarship on sanctuary localities in the United States, there is little research analyzing the factors that lead to the adoption of sanctuary resolutions at the municipal le...
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Racialized Real Estate Agency in U.S. Housing Markets: A Research Note Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2023-01-23 Hannah Lee, Kyle Crowder, Elizabeth Korver-Glenn
Case studies have illuminated that U.S. real estate agents, as key housing market gatekeepers, continue to maintain racial residential stratification well into the twenty-first century. We use nove...
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Ecological, Engineering and Community Resilience Policy Adoption in Large US Cities Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Ki Eun Kang, Ann O’M Bowman, Bryce Hannibal, Sierra Woodruff, Kent Portney (deceased)
This paper seeks to identify which resilience-oriented policies are being enacted and factors that influence policy adoption. We develop clusters of policies related to three types of resilience: e...
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Boiling the Frog Slowly: Reducing Resistance to Neoliberal Education Reform Through Window Dressing Strategies Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Julia Sass Rubin, Stephen Danley
Increasingly partisan perceptions of neoliberal education reforms and resistance to such reforms from communities they negatively impact have created challenges for some neoliberal reformers. This ...
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Assessing the Impact of Ferry Transit on Urban Crime Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-12-27 Bryan Weber, Paolo Cappellari
In 2017, over a dozen ferry stations were introduced across the NYC region on multiple dates, serving roughly 10,000 customers per day. We measure a negative association between these stations and ...
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Producing and Contesting Meanings of Participation in Planning: The Case of Singapore (1985–2020) Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Jan H. M. Lim, Angeliki Paidakaki, Han Verschure, Pieter Van den Broeck
This paper examines how the concept of participation in planning has been constructed by state and nonstate actors in the politico-institutional context of Singapore. Our objective is to gain a dee...
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Specialized Local Government and Water Conservation Policy in the United States Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-10-05 David Switzer, Jun Deng
Special districts are an increasingly important part of the local government equation in the United States, representing over forty percent of local governments. The spread of these governments is ...
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Creative Placemaking and Empowered Participatory Governance Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Amber Wichowsky, Jennifer Gaul-Stout, Jill McNew-Birren
Creative placemaking has become a popular strategy to revitalize distressed neighborhoods. Who is empowered to participate in these projects and in what capacity? Do such efforts reduce or reinforc...
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Why Political Scientists Should Study Smaller Cities Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Tanu Kumar, Matthew Stenberg
In the past 20 years, Political Science research has increasingly focused on urban and local politics. We systematically review this literature and find that smaller cities are disproportionally un...
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Corrigendum to The Moderating Effects of Social Norms on Premerger Overspending: Results from a Survey Experiment Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-08-20
Houlberg, Kurt, and Jostein Askim. 2022. “The Moderating Effects of Social Norms on Premerger Overspending: Results from a Survey Experiment.” Urban Affairs Review. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/10780874221090873
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School Characteristics and Voting: What Matters in Turnout and Passage Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Karin E. Kitchens
Do school characteristics predict the likelihood of turning out to vote on tax referendums for school funding or predict passage of tax referendums for school funding? I rely on publicly available ...
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Networked Urban Governance: A Socio-Structural Analysis of Transport Strategies in London and New York Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Nuno F. da Cruz, Philipp Rode, Michael McQuarrie, Nicole Badstuber, Enora Robin
This paper investigates urban governance empirically by applying social network analysis methods to data gathered through structured interviews in London and New York. We explore how decisions are ...
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Assessing the New Municipalism Reform of Advisory Councils: The Cases of Madrid and Barcelona (2015–2019) Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 José Luis Fernández-Martínez, Patricia García-Espín, Pau Alarcón
New Municipalism governments in Madrid and Barcelona (2015 − 2019) promoted a new agenda which included participatory budgeting, e-initiatives, and randomly selected forums. Both cities implemented...
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The Impact of the National Housing Program on Residential Segregation in Costa Rica Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Eduardo Pérez-Molina
Residential socio-economic segregation in Costa Rica had an overall decreasing trend between 1973 and 2011 because of a sustained reduction in the amount of lower income households. However, in 198...
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The Role of Women in Local Governments: An Analysis of Efficiency in Spain Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Ana-María Ríos, María-Dolores Guillamón, Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros
Female representation may be a key factor in improving the quality of governance. In fact, the literature considers that the presence of women in organisations tends to improve performance. In this...
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Context Matters: The Conditional Effect of Black Police Chiefs on Policing Outcomes Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-07-11 Kelsey Shoub, Leah Christiani
A frequently proposed “solution” to the problem of racially targeted policing is to diversify the leadership of a police department, such as instate a Black police chief. However, little is known a...
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Restorative Revitalization in Inner-Ring Suburban Communities: Lessons from Maple Heights, OH Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-07-07 Hannah Lebovits
Suburban revitalization efforts can remain ineffective when they do not adequately address the historic harm done to minority, low-income communities via economic, housing, public finance, banking,...
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Motivated Localism: Polarization and Public Support for Intergovernmental Carbon Reduction Efforts Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Aaron Deslatte
Climate challenges in the 21st century have given rise to re-thinking the role of local governments in confronting larger-than-local challenges. However, anthropogenic climate change has become a weaponized partisan issue, and surveys show a growing partisan tribalization over climate science. Empowering local governments to take broader climate and sustainability actions is one avenue for addressing
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The Choice to Discriminate: How Source of Income Discrimination Constrains Opportunity for Housing Choice Voucher Holders Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Forrest Hangen, Daniel T. O’Brien
The “choice” in the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program signals the mobility offered to voucher holders. However, some landlords use source of income (SOI) discrimination to exclude voucher holders—limiting their locational choices. We propose several factors likely to influence this landlord strategy including, market competitiveness, stereotypes, and racial discrimination. We examine the prevalence
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Do Shallow Rental Subsidies Promote Housing Stability? Evidence on Costs and Effects from DC’s Flexible Program Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Maria L. Alva, Natnaell Mammo, Ryan T. Moore, Samuel Quinney
Residents of cities face housing instability due to high housing costs. We conduct a randomized experiment evaluating the impacts of a flexible “shallow subsidy” among 668 qualified renters with re...
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Wealthier Neighbors and Higher Rents: The Rental Assistance Demonstration and Gentrification Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Warren Lowell, Imari Smith
Public housing redevelopment is associated with the gentrification of neighborhoods. However, the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD), the largest redevelopment program in the U.S. to date, encourages preservation and introduces tenant protections that potentially limit gentrification-related displacement. In the first nationwide study of RAD's impact on neighborhoods, we linked administrative housing
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Identifying Plan Perceptions: Higher Education Institutions as Arts and Cultural Anchors Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Amanda Ashley, Carolyn G. Loh, Leslie Durham, Rose Kim, Karen Bubb
City leaders easily recognize their local HEIs as economic anchors, often as part of an intentional “eds and meds” strategy. Universities have long been viewed by city governments as important arts and cultural patrons, presenters, and educators. However, it is not clear that local governments recognize HEIs as key players in arts and cultural economies to the fullest extent possible, nor that they
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Revisiting the Micro-Foundations of the Tiebout Theory of Local Expenditures: Are Private Community Amenities Substitutes for Local Public Services in Residential Choices? Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-06-14 Kristine Canales, Martha Kropf, Suzanne Leland, Cherie Maestas
Tiebout's theory of local expenditures predicts the efficient provision of local tax and expenditure bundles via market forces occur when individuals “vote with their feet” (Tiebout 1956). Private amenity choices may distort market signals to local governments. Thus we conduct a conjoint experiment to explore how citizens make choices among hypothetical apartment homes, varying public and club good
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Urban Social Movement Strategies in Times of Crisis: Evidence from the Movements for Housing in São Paulo Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-06-10 Maureen Donaghy
This research note seeks to update our understanding of the factors that influence shifts in social movement strategies. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, I assess the role of crisis in whether and how social movements reshape their strategies and perhaps redefine their fight for the right to the city. Though previous research has shown the importance of political opportunities and ideology for social
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Policing Temporality: Police Officers Reflect on the Role of the Police in Gentrifying a High-Crime Neighborhood Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Hadas Zur
Prior research reveals the interrelations between gentrification and policing, yet this paper introduces the unheard perspective of the of police on their role in gentrification. The study focuses on South Tel Aviv, which houses immigrants, drug addicts, prostitution and houselessness. It is undergoing massive urban renewal and has become the most policed area in the city. Methodology includes interviews
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Homeowners Saying “Yes, In My Back Yard”: Evidence from Israel Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Tal Alster
The role of homeowners in curbing housing development, leading to shortages and lack of affordability, is a dominant explanation for tightened regulation and limited housing supply in high-demand areas. This paper shows that homeowners can also play the opposite role, as pro-development stakeholders. Original research based on permitting data, a survey of owners and analysis of planning objections
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The Moderating Effects of Social Norms on Pre-merger Overspending: Results from a Survey Experiment Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Kurt Houlberg, Jostein Askim
The proposition that amalgamation reforms lead to a common-pool problem is strongly supported; governments are incentivized to overspend before the merger is implemented. However, existing literature helps little in understanding why some governments do not overspend in the pre-merger period, and why hoarders do not overspend more than they do. One explanation hitherto overlooked is the moderating
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How Local Contexts Matter for Local Immigrant Policies Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-05-31 Heather Khan-Welsh, Laura A. Reese, Teagan J. Reese
There is a dearth of studies comparing the relative explanatory power of several major theories related to policy support for immigrants specifically in the context of local policies (as opposed to those at the state and national levels) and related to immigrant settlement and attraction (as opposed to welfare or legal benefits). By testing alternate explanations of local immigration policy, the analysis
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Insurgent Asylum Policies in European Cities: A Multi-Level Governance Perspective Urban Affairs Review (IF 2.387) Pub Date : 2022-05-25 Raffaele Bazurli, David Kaufmann
Cities worldwide operate on the frontlines to support forced migrants. Some of these cities even overstep their formal prerogatives by refusing to comply with, and at times overtly subverting, the prescriptions of national authorities. This article builds a conceptual framework to understand such forms of insurgent urban asylum policy-making. We argue that insurgency depends on how city governments